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ranchero

ran·che·ro/ɹænˈt͡ʃɛəɹoʊ/noun

ranchero is spelled R-A-N-C-H-E-R-O: 8 letters and 3 syllables (ran·che·ro). It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ranchero means “a ranch or rancho worker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ranchero is rancheros or rancheroes.

How many letters and syllables are in ranchero?

Letters8: R-A-N-C-H-E-R-O
Syllables3: ran·che·ro
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ranchero?

Ranchero appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce ranchero?

  • /ɹænˈt͡ʃɛəɹoʊ/
  • /ɹɑːnˈt͡ʃɛəɹoʊ/

Ranchero has 3 syllables, split ran·che·ro in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ranchero.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ranchero

  • rancheros plural
  • rancheroes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ranchero mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    USa ranch or rancho worker

  2. 2

    USa ranch or rancho owner

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does ranchero come from?

Borrowed from Spanish ranchero.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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